Janet McNeill

As I said in a previous post, Oh Canada….. (For those who do not know Canada well, our national anthem, the one we used to sing & get a lovely warm feeling from, begins “Oh Canada, our home & native land.” Lately, the words “Oh Canada” have a different resonance for me altogether.)

Anyway.

Just want to give you a few blog links for some good reading.

Go here for Greenpeace Canada’s Climate & Energy Coordinator Dave Martin’s latest blog post, in which Canada’s dubious fossil award distinction is explained.

You can also visit here to see a short YouTube on the Fossil Awards (sponsored by Avaaz.org)

Please go here to read Lorraine Rekman’s blog post ‘The Humiliation of Canada.’ Unfortunately, Canada is not the great shining place so many of us have believed it to be…

& for lots of coverage of stories coming out of Copenhagen from IPS Terraviva, you can go here

Janet

There will be a million stories coming out of Copenhagen. Every delegate, every student, every protester, every writer will have her/his own take on what’s happening there. I’ve been writing long enough to know that when 5 writers attend an event & tell about it afterward, you get 5 different “takes” on what happened. Kind of amazing the way that is…

In any case, though, I know 2 men (fellow Canadians) who are over there - long-time activists/writers whose opinions I highly value. I’ll be following what they have to say, & invite you to do so too.

Greenpeace Canada’s Climate & Energy Coordinator Dave Martin’s latest blog post can be found here

Steve Leahy’s work (& that of his many young colleagues from Latin America) can be found here

The Toronto Star has Copenhagen pages here

There is also a young woman blogging for the Toronto Star. Her name is Jasmeet Sidhu & she’s the founder of the Peel Environmental Youth Alliance (PEYA), a network of students in Peel Region (west of Toronto) working to implement environmental programs in all 220 Peel Region schools. Find her blog here

Janet